Merry Christmas 2006

Merry Christmas!

We spent Christmas day at a local orphanage here in Chiang Mai helping provide lunch for the children and workers. There are 26 children in the home, 21 boys and 5 girls. Each year the children are asked what they would like for Christmas dinner and they request hamburgers! As we prepared to leave one of the workers from the home presented us with a gift for coming, with it was a card that the children had made. It was an absolutely beautiful card. Inside the card many of the children signed in Thai with a couple in English. One especially touched our hearts. It said "...In Christmas time, I hope you have a good time with your parent..." Although we won't physically be with our parents this Christmas, we want you to know we love you and are spending this Christmas with you in our hearts. We are blessed to have a wonderful, supportive family! We love you all.

Yum, Yum! These hamburgers are so good! How many can I have?

This little boy was precious! He enjoyed every bite of this strawberry cupcake.

Each of the younger children were provided with a sweatsuit and the older boys received jeans.

A fun time was had by all!

Trip to Hong Kong

Austin broke his finger last week, which led us to Hong Kong for treatment. After his finger was set, we were out to have a little fun. It was Austin and Adriann's first visit and was a treat!

We first had to hit the Burger King in the Bangkok airport!

Red trees, yellow trees!

Trees in every color! With the cold weather of Hong Kong and lots of Christmas decorations, it really looks like the holidays are here.

It's pizza night! Jerry is out of town so Kelly and the kids ordered pizza, Canadian bacon and corn, YUM, YUM! The American pizza companies should add it to their menu.

School Christmas Program

What an exciting day! The kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade had their Christmas program. The children told the Christmas story and sang lots of familiar carols. The story told in such a simple way was a great reminder that we should keep the holidays simple and focused on the real meaning - our Savior's Birth! Adriann was a narrator and did a fabulous job reciting her part of when the angels appeared to Mary and Joseph. We're a little (well a lot maybe) biased but she looked beautiful too.

I always wondered why most of the Christmas dresses in America were short sleeves in the winter. It's so that they can be sent to Thailand!! Thanks Aunt Debbie!

It's Beginning to Sound a lot like Christmas!

Austin had his first band concert tonight. He did an awesome job playing the trombone. Great preformance and we look forward to many more!